Murg Polau / Morog Polau / Chicken Pilaf

Though I posted Murg Polau / Morog Polau / Chicken Pilaf recipe before, I wanted to do it again. In restaurants of Bangladesh Murg Polau / Morog Polau / Chicken Pilaf has its different style. They don’t mix the gravy with rice. They just top up chicken / morog on rice. Don’t get shocked to see the list of ingredients. Most of ingredients are available in Bangladeshi kitchen. Hope you will make it and enjoy it. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO All my readers.

Ingredients:

Morog /Chicken:

• 1 chicken (size 8 preferable)

• ½ cup yogurt

• 2 cups milk

• 2 cups sliced onion

• ½ cup onion paste

• 1 tablespoon lemon juice

• 1 tablespoon ginger paste

• 1 teaspoon garlic paste

• ½ teaspoon chilli powder

• ½ teaspoon coriander powder

• ½ teaspoon cardamom powder

• ½ teaspoon white pepper powder

• ¼ teaspoon nutmeg powder

• ¼ teaspoon mace powder

• 2″ cinnamon stick

• 2 tablespoon sultana

• 4 cloves

• 5-6 green chillies

• 1 tablespoon sugar

• 5-6 cashew nuts(optional)

• 1 bay leaf

• Salt to taste

• ¼ cup oil

• ½ cup clarified butter / ghee

Polau / Rice:

• 2 and ½ cups rice

• 1 cup milk

• 1 teaspoon ginger paste

• 1 bay leaf

• 3-4 green chillies

• 2 cardamom pods

• 1″ cinnamon stick

• 1 teaspoon sugar

• Salt to taste

• 1/3 cup calcified butter

How to make:

1. Cut the chicken like the picture. Cut each chicken into 4 pieces and cut 1-2 slits on each piece.

Rownak loves to cook bangladeshi food and share her bengali recipes on her cooking blog. Rownak is determined to introduce all the authentic bangladeshi cuisine to the world and let everyone realise what they were missing out! She is based on sunny Queensland (Gold Coast) in Australia. Rownak writes for a number of bangladeshi cooking blog.

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